Analysis of Every Time I Kiss You
Nizar Qabbani 1923 (Damascus) – 1998 (London)
Every time I kiss you
After a long separation
I feel
I am putting a hurried love letter
In a red mailbox.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Tanka (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 1001111 1001010 11 1110010110 0011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 101 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 28, 2023
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